Come, Holy Ghost, Eternal God

Come

Ho­ly Ghost

eter­nal God

Proceeding from above

Both from the Fa­ther and the Son

The God of peace and love;

Visit our minds

in­to our hearts

Thy heav’n­ly grace in­spire;

That truth and god­li­ness we may

Pursue with full de­sire.

Thou in Thy gifts art ma­ni­fold;

By them Christ’s Church doth stand;

In faith­ful hearts Thou writ’st Thy law

The fin­ger of God’s hand.

According to Thy pro­mise

Lord

Thou giv­est speech with grace

That through Thy help God’s prais­es may

Resound in ev­ery place.

O Ho­ly Ghost

in­to our minds

Send down Thy heav’n­ly light;

Kindle our hearts with fer­vent zeal

To serve God day and night.

Our weak­ness strength­en and con­firm

For

Lord

Thou know’st us frail;

That nei­ther de­vil

world

nor flesh

Against us may pre­vail.

Put back our ene­my from us

And help us to ob­tain

Peace in our hearts with God and man—

The best

the tru­est gain;

Of strife and of dis­sen­sion

Dissolve

O Lord

the bands

And knit the knots of peace and love

Throughout all Christ­ian lands.

Grant us the grace that we may know

The Fa­ther of all might

That we of His be­lov­èd Son

May gain the bliss­ful sight;

And that we may with per­fect faith

Ever ac­know­ledge Thee

The Spir­it of Fa­ther

and of Son

One God in Per­sons Three.

To God the Fa­ther laud and praise

And to His bless­èd Son

And to the Ho­ly Spir­it of grace

Co-equal Three in One.